Innovationsight

In 1959, in a paper entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”, physicist Richard Feynmann proposed a new field of study for science: technology at an atomic and molecular scale. “The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom”, Feynmann told the American Physical Society, opening the way to any interested investors. His talk sparked an interest in developing technology at a minute scale, which has continued to the present day, and which will probably result in a silent revolution which will have an impact on many different areas of our everyday life. (more…)